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Re: NTP DRDos Blog post


From: John <jw () nuclearfallout net>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:51:49 -0800

On 2/20/2014 11:43 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
Actually, it's much more recent than that (in this context; as others have mentioned, DR-DOS was the acronym for Digital 
Research's MS-DOS clone).

I didn't just pluck that 12y term out of the air.

I know how much Gibson is hated in some circles, but he used it in 2002: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~arvind/cs425/doc/drdos.pdf. I read that in 2002, did other research about it in 2002, saw reflected attacks in 2002.

Yes, I used DRDOS, too.

-John


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